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Here are my top ten fiction books. I have enjoyed all of these books enough to have read them more than once and all have left a permanent impression on me. When I was very young I struggled at first with reading but with a lot of help from my mother...

The Helm series of Field Guides and Identification Guides are a superb set of resources for birders, birdwatchers and ornithologists alike. I have been birdwatching for more than 30 years and as I have become a more serious ornithologist I have beco...

The Sneetches is one of Dr Seuss's most underrated books and for some inexplicable reason it is not widely known. The Sneetches is a superb tale of two groups of creatures, separated by class, differing only by a star on the belly or not. The star...

I have loved the Asterix books since I was a child and continue to enjoy reading them into adulthood. As a youngster, the combination of colourful illustrations and Roman bashing adventures were enough for me, but as an adult the books reveal a lot m...

Green Eggs and Ham is one of Dr Seuss's most enjoyable and amusing books, with a clear message to unadventurous children and adults alike. With wonderfully strange situations in which to try Green Eggs and Ham, superb rhyming text and the surrea...

I have enjoyed reading since I was a child of about 6 years old, encouraged by my mother, and have amassed a very large collection as I find it difficult to part with books. In August 2007 I began a project that had been in my mind for some time; to...

The Twits is a revolting tale of two disgusting people written by the prolific children's author, Roald Dahl. The Twits is rather a short book, with short, simple chapters and is suitable for fairly young children in this respect. There is much to am...

Lonely Planet claims to be the largest independently owned travel guidebook publisher in the world. It is probably the most popular series of travel books among backpackers and other low-cost travelers, due to its history of serving this market. So t...

Because I love to read good books - I want to have the honor of introducing you to ten favorite classic novels that have enchanted and entertained readers for decades. I feel one of the saddest effects of modern society has been to take young people...

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also often known as the Booker Prize, is one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of...

Here are my top ten fiction books. I have enjoyed all of these books enough to have read them more than once and all have left a permanent impression on me. When I was very young I struggled at first with reading but with a lot of help from my mother...